- EWTH's financial life can be further investigated (perhaps)
by digging into Licensed Victualler records
- EWTH's personal life can be further investigated by
looking up his divorce cases records,
- EWTH's public life can be further investigated by looking
for contemporary articles about him in local newspapers.
Trolling through old records, especially newspapers, can be fascinating,
even absent "hits", but it's certainly time-consuming. It's advisable
to phone each research site before making a visit and explaining the quest,
to determine where exactly (and when) to go so as most usefully to maximize
the use of time. It may take a string of such calls to reach the right
persons, but will be well worth the effort.
Licensed Victualler Records and Pub Ownership:
° London Metropolitan Archives;
40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
Tel 020 7332 3820; Fax 020 7833 9136
Research subjects:
- In general, Hoare & Co (brewers or pub owners) of the 1880's
& 1890's
- The Star Tavern 31 Aldersgate St, London St Botolph Aldersgate
(residence of Edmund Hoare when he died in 1897).
- The Sail and Lion at 65 Ropemaker's Field, Limehouse E
(in Edward Hoare's name in 1914 city directory
- The sale of 11 pubs by Hoare and Company to the Red Lion Brewery
Lower East Smithfield, which was registered in November 1894 to acquire
Hoare & Co with 11 public houses (already looked up and reported on
by Jeff's sister, but perhaps there's more detail somewhere about the "licensed"
participants in the actual transaction).
- New Cross Brewery Co. Ltd, 26 Pomeroy Street, registered September
1905
(their public houses (only) were acquired by Hoares.)
- City of London Brewery Co Ltd, Hour Glass Brewery
Upper Thames Street. Registered in 1860 and reconstructed as the New
City of London Brewery Co. Ltd in 1891; reverted to the original title
in 1895. Due to increased trade, brewing was transferred to the Swan Brewery
Fulham in 1922 and the Hour Glass Brewery was used as a warehouse.
Brewing continued at Fulham until 1926 when many public houses were sold to
Hoare & Co. Ltd.
° See also website (CLICK
HERE) offering advice on locating ancestors who worked in pubs
Divorces:
° PRINCIPAL REGISTRY OF THE FAMILY DIVISION.
CLICK HERE for further
details.
First Avenue House; 42-49 High Holborn
London WC1V 6NP
Telephone 020 7947 6000 (Royal Courts of Justice switchboard)
Relatives, Then and Now:
° Directories, Phone Books and
Newspapers
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
London +44 (0)20 7412 7000 (Switchboard)
Boston Spa +44 (0)1937 546000 (Switchboard)
Newspapers in the Euston Rd Library +44 (0)20 7412 7353
http://www.bl.uk/contact/howto.html
Look up in City Directories 1900 - 1930 and in phone books:
- What happened to Alice and the boys?
- What happened to Eleanor Hoare Griffiths and her daughter Amelia,
b ~1900?
(While there may well be multiple Edward Hoares listed (though if middle
names are shown, that'd nail it), I've found that "Edmund Hoare" is far
more rare, therefore more potentially fruitful name to look up.
EWTH's and Alice's son Edmund would have been in his 20's starting in 1910,
and if he was resident in London, might well have been listed in directories
of the time, and possibly in phone books later.)
Specifically For Newspapers:
° The British Library - Newspaper Library
Colindale Avenue
London
NW9 5HE Yorkshire
London +44 (0)20 7412 7000
Local newspapers are prime sources for social data (births, weddings,
funerals, noteworthy events) and the relatives listed in conjunction with
them, in the papers' social sections.
(Newspapers I've used for previous such research typically ran a section
once a week on Births/Deaths/Marriages and Social Events, and always printed
in the same section/page of the paper, making the task of combing through
several years worth of microfiche is a matter of hours, not days.
Some newspapers are even indexed for proper names.
The Clerkenwell News, for example, may provide information. It
was launched in 1855, became the Daily Chronicle in 1872. Then in
1930 the Daily Chronicle and the Daily News merged and became known as the
News Chronicle. Both the News Chronicle and its evening partner, The
Star, stopped production in 1960, but The British Newspaper Library ought
to know if early copies are morgued, and if so, where ( http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html
).
° Journals that covered Devon, and Axminster are catalogued
at:
Head of Library & Information Services, Devon Library Headquarters
Barley House, Isleworth Road
Exeter, EX4 1RQ
Tel: 01392 384315; Fax: 01392 384316
devlibs@devon.gov.uk
For a full listing of the Newspaper Library's archived publications
that covered news of
Clerkenwell and of Devon, CLICK HERE.
The Mormon Library Archives of
Records by Location:
While the Mormon's records of individuals and families have mostly
been digitized and put on line, their collection of records associated
with localities - churches, cemeteries and city halls - has not.
These records have however for the large part been reduced to microfilm,
and copies can be ordered for a small fee to be sent for viewing to local
LDS libraries all over the world.
To see the titles of the Mormon library's books, journals, and
listings of individuals
associated with Clerkenwell, CLICK HERE.